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"The Tonya Harding Option." That was the delicious phrase that ABC's Jake Tapper cited about Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision to try to criticize Barack Obama. Tapper was, of course, referring to the wannabe Olympic ice princess who had to kneecap her superior opponent because she knew she could not outskate her. Too bad that Tapper could not get it on the record so he attributed the odious comparison to "one Democratic Party official." If Tapper thought that such a comparison was apt perhaps he should have said it in his own words.
The nasty tone of the Democratic race was not in dispute. CBS' Dean Reynolds cited "acrimonious exchanges" and a mood that "a once spirited campaign may be simply dispiriting." He quoted insults such as "Judas" and "Joe McCarthy"--"on and on it goes, the fames stoked every day by the increasingly angry catfight both campaigns are waging in cyberspace and elsewhere." On NBC, Tim Russert perceived "deep distress about the tension and divisiveness in this campaign."
NBC's Russert was astonished that Rodham Clinton chose to make her disparaging remarks about Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev Jeremiah Wright, at the offices of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, a newspaper "owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, who is described by her allies as the Godfather of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy--the man who raised questions about the suicide of Vince Foster and the death of former party chairman Ron Brown, who funded investigations of Troopergate and Whitewater."
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